ESPN will air a film about Game 6 of the 1998 NBA Finals — with Michael Jordan hitting the game-winning shot — on Wednesday

By Joe Reedy

Associated Press|

May 18, 2020 | 6:39 AM

The final episodes of “The Last Dance” have aired, yet ESPN has one more program to show about the Chicago Bulls’ sixth championship.

ESPN will show “Game 6: The Movie” at 8 p.m. CDT Wednesday after a rebroadcast of Episodes 9 and 10 of “The Last Dance.” The film features game footage captured by five NBA Entertainment cameras and marks the first time the game has been available to watch in high definition.

Executive producer Gregg Winik — who was a cameraman for NBA Entertainment during that season — said the brainstorming about Game 6 started by compiling the last 40 seconds of the game for the final episode of “The Last Dance.” After they were able to do that, it started to expand into a project of its own. Winik and his team then took the NBC telecast and started to lay in footage to get the complete product.

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“If you would have told me six months ago if we could have done this, I would have said it was impossible,” Winik said. “It features a lot of dramatic imagery, and the pictures jump off the screen.”